FAITH CAPSULE: Meditating your prayer will work as quality prayer that is fervent and earnest before God.

Psalm 64

Effective fervent prayer is earnest prayer that prevails for a believer. Fervent prayer is intensely passionate prayer. Earnest prayer is a serious intention, purpose or effort. Elijah’s prayer with result was propelled with fervent and earnest approach. James 5:16-18 described Elijah’s quality prayer of result, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.  Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.  And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.”  Elijah’s quality prayer was to address a special need. Are you addressing a special need with prayer that lack intense passion with no serious intention? It is time to begin to address special need with fervent, earnest prayer like Elijah’s prayer.
In one word, meditating your prayer will work as quality prayer that is fervent and earnest before God. Meditating prayer will be presented before God day and night. Without doubt, praying word before God day and night is labor, is fervent and earnest before God. In this wicked world, simply give yourself continually by meditating prayer of deliverance and preservation.
From this day, before God, with your expectation and manifestation adapt to David’s prayer by meditating as stated, “Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity, who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows-bitter words.” (Psalm 64:1-3) Meditation is not memorization. Meditating your prayer before God just like meditating the word of God will answer for your deliverance and preservation. Meditating the word of God answered for Moses and Joshua as their compass for navigation through the wilderness journey.
Joshua 1:8 recorded meditating word of God, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Evidently as meditating word of God worked in the life of Moses and Joshua it is certain that meditating your prayer of deliverance and preservation before God will bring forth manifestation.
In the life of a believer, when faith sinks, fear will rise to take place. Fear does not announce itself before it invades its victims. Fear knows no discrimination. David’s prayer of meditation was against fear when he stated, “Preserve me from the fear of the enemy.” Fear is the master of fear against man day and night while meditating prayer day and night against devil is the solution to quell fear.
In this wicked world, give yourself continually meditating word of prayer against fear and your deliverance and preservation shall come to be.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of fervent effective earnest prayer for your deliverance and preservation.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is your relationship with God?

Psalm 18

The bible recorded, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” (Psalm 107:20) God sent His word. Jesus confirmed that the word is here already by stating, “…I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) Jesus (Living word of God) confirmed that word is here saying that “I have come not that I will come” Knowing that the word is here, what is your relationship with the word of God? Relationship with the word of God is relationship with God because the word of God is God. To be in relationship with the word of God is to be relevant with the word of God and be irrelevant with the wicked world. Word of God is God. His word is His identity, in His word is command, in His word is law, in His word is healing, in His word is revelation. In the word of God, we build relationship with God.
Build relationship with God in His word. Moses’ related with the word of God. It is written, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” (Psalm 103:7) The ways of God are in the word of God. The words of God are the acts of God while His acts are His direction and His testimonies. Living in this wicked word and having relationship with the word of God is living in the ways of God. Also living in the acts of God is living by keeping the testimonies of God. Man should not live life in assumptions that seems right. The bible stated, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12) Are you allowing assumptions to take you for ride in this wicked life?
Just like Moses, those that walk in the ways of God walks in His law and they are blessed. Psalm119:1 buttressed, “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord!” Ones that keep the testimonies of God live by the ways of God and they are blessed.
The word of God cannot be broken. Be relevant to the word of God for a mindful relationship with God. Get to know His way, keep His acts that are His testimonies to enable your seeking Him diligently. Proverbs 8:17 recorded the promise of God for those who seek God diligently, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.” Have faith, seek God diligently, have relationship with God to please Him. God will reward you because He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6) As an acclaimed believer, embrace His ways and meditate His acts to become a diligent seeker of the Lord God.
Are you in relationship with the word of God?

Prayer for today: Ask God for His grace to gain and maintain His word for relationship with God.

FAITH CAPSULE: In God’s promise, God will not look over any violating conditions which will offset His promise.

Numbers 14:1-35

Every journey of life should disengage with multitude to avoid failure which denies arrival to expected end. Multitude is a substantial number of people that gathered together. Multitude of people can be of many character. Many character in a company of people is vulnerable to all kind of challenges. Israel were coming out of bondage of over hundred years with multitude. The bible recorded, “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.  A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock.” (Exodus 12:37-38)
The Israelites enter their journey but they could not advance because negative effect of mixed multitude. Numbers 11:4-6 recorded the negativity of mixed multitude, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” (Numbers 11:4-6)
Mixed multitude was the source of intense craving for what was not important in the journey to God Promised Land. Are you focusing on the promises of God to enter God’s Promised Land for your life or are you focusing on your crowd? Multitude/crowd will not excuse you from their negativity if you will remain relevant with their negativity. Are you focusing on where you are heading to or looking back to the past which added nothing to you but pain? With the influence of mixed multitude character, the Israelites began to count on what was in the past instead of counting the blessing outstretch hand of God that brought them out of their past. Gain focus; maintain focus; meditate on God’s promises.
This day, with understanding, know it that God performs, He is more than able to perfect on man’s life with focus on Him.
Among the Israelites, multitude with distinctive character were the source of complaint before God instead of complimenting God for His goodness. God promised Israelites with Promised Land but God could not look over violating conditions to manifest promise. God responded to violation of the Israelites as it is written, “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:  The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.  Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:27-30)

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God to separate you from multitude in your God given life.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is worthy to be feared.

Genesis 19

Command of God is His word. God’s command is His direction to have the fear for Him. God is worthy to be feared. Deuteronomy 6:1-3, is written for us to know “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God…” God’s command is to teach us to fear Him. To fear God is to love God. In the command of God is our teacher to know and fear God. A thoughtful student of the word of God must get the understanding to fear God according to His word. Failure to obey God is not to fear Him.
God expects us to love Him just as it is recorded in His word, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5) Sin and sinning is rooted in disobedience. Without doubt, not knowing to fear God breeds sin. Sin simply came to be under heaven when eating from one tree out of varieties of trees in the Garden of Eden. In failure, not to fear God started when Adam and Eve ate against God’s command. It is written, “…the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17) Adam and Eve engaged a blatant act of disobedience which does not have any reasonable excuse before God but consequence.
Since the time of Adam and Eve, man continues to sin. God simply wants us to love Him with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength. Abraham loved the Lord God and obeyed as was commanded by God. It takes loving God with all heart to rise and depart to a strange land and not hold back just like Abraham. At age seventy-five, leaving behind family and comfort environment is the evidence of the fear of God and obedience to God’s command. Abraham obeyed the word (command) of God.
Disobedience to God’s command by the wife of Lot was the lack of her fear for God. Do you know to obey God’s command? Knowing God’s command is knowing to fear God? At the time of destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his wife were commanded not to look back on the track from destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot’s wife looked back against God’s command. Genesis 19:26 recorded Lot’s wife lack for the fear of God, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” Learn in God’s word and not look back as commanded in God’s command.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be clothed by His fear in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Remain focus only on God that is fully in charge.

Psalm 37

Remain focus only on God to maintain His presence that is fully in charge. The wicked one is the evil one but God alone oversees all that exists under heaven and earth. Are you fretful of evildoers or are you envious of the workers of iniquity? The Psalmist warned, “Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.” (Psalm 37:1) When a man is not resting in the promise of God, man will be fretful of the evildoers. One that does not trust in God maintains self in troubles and not rest in the Lord. Does that speak to your life? Also, those who are envious of the workers of iniquity demonstrate that they are no longer focusing on God that meets need for man. A failure not to wait on God will cause man to waste. One that does not rest on God will rust away.
Acclaimed believer of God must know and not be fretful of the truth that wicked ones are here to stay until the Lord is ready to take them away. The same Psalm 37 gave the prescription of what it takes to ignore the wicked ones by stating, “Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.” (Psalm 37:3) Let the Lord take care of His business concerning the wicked. There is nothing that gets past the Lord. The Lord God sees all things and He knows all things that are going on.
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 admonished, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.  Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.  But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.” You should maintain self by focus on God alone and not focus on the wicked one. When man does not focus on self, man will never be able to focus on God in this wicked world. Focus on God, fear God for your own and not fret because of wicked ones, the evil doers.
God alone knows when to deal with those who make the choice not to come out of wickedness.
Jeremiah questioned, “…Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.” (Jeremiah 12:1-2) God does not sleep nor slumber and it is important that we focus on God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God to deliver you from the path of wicked ones.